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NY Times Editorial on Juvenile Lifers: "A Shameful Record"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 6, 2008 Editorial, NY Times A Shameful Record The United States leads the world in a shameful category: the number of people it has locked up for life without parole for crimes committed by juveniles. Juvenile crime should not be taken lightly, but young people should not be completely written off. According to Human Rights Watch, 2,380 people in this country are serving life sentences for crimes they committed before they turned 18. That makes the United States an extreme global outlier. Sentencing juveniles to life without parole is at odds with international law; the vast majority of the world?s countries ban the practice. Some juvenile criminals commit horrible crimes, and the justice system should punish them accordingly. Juveniles, though, are not adults...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).